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1844: A shilling monthly for women entitled The...

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1844

A shilling monthly for women entitled The Christian Mothers' Magazine began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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March 1957: The British Consumers' Association was officially...

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March 1957

The BritishConsumers' Association was officially founded on the model of the Consumers' Union in the USA.
Consumers’ Association. http://www.which.co.uk/.

1895: The first four-cylinder motorcycle was produced,...

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1895

The first four-cylinder motorcycle was produced, by H. C. Holden of Britain.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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September 1919: The Woman Engineer, which campaigned for...

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September 1919

The Woman Engineer, which campaigned for equal employment and educational opportunities, began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory 1999. 37th ed., R. R. Bowker, 1998.
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Hannah Brand

HB , who was active at the end of the eighteenth century, was a mediocre poet but a remarkable, unconventional playwright who produced tragedy, comedy, and translation.

14 February 1946: The Bank of England was nationalised....

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14 February 1946

The Bank of England was nationalised.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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1871: Manchester's public library became the first...

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1871

Manchester's public library became the first to employ women assistants in an effort to overcome a perceived shortage of suitable young men.
Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain. 2nd ed. rev., Library Association, 1977.
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October 1854: The Working Men's College, Great Ormond Street,...

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October 1854

The Working Men's College , Great Ormond Street, London, was founded by the Rev. Frederick D. Maurice .
Baldick, Chris. The Social Mission of English Criticism. Clarendon, 1983.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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1879: British firms on the Niger River amalgamated...

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1879

British firms on the Niger River amalgamated into the United Africa Company .
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
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November 1671: The Quaker Thomas Milne of Aberdeen, who...

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November 1671

The QuakerThomas Milne of Aberdeen, who had buried his dead child in a kail-yard in preference to the Presbyterian grave-yard, was punished by a sentence of exile, closing his shop, and removing the body.
Walker, William. The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860. Edmond and Spark, 1887.
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January 1907: The Artists' Suffrage League was founded...

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January 1907

The Artists' Suffrage League was founded to further the cause of Women's enfranchisement by the work and professional help of artists.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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1 March 1932: In Britain the Import Duties Act placed a...

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1 March 1932

In Britain the Import Duties Act placed a 20% duty on imported domestic appliances.
Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1975: Family allowances were amalgamated with child...

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1975

Family allowances were amalgamated with child tax allowances to create Child Benefit.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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Fairbairns, Zoë. “Wages for Housework”. New Internationalist, No. 181, Mar. 1988.

1909: The Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Company...

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1909

The Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Company Limited was founded, the first of its kind in Britain. It established approximately 3,000 cinemas during the course of the next five years.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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By February 1957: Lawrence Durrell published his novel Justine,...

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By February 1957

Lawrence Durrell published his novel Justine, the first volume in The Alexandria Quartet. He wrote in manic bursts,
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
10 October 2013
taking weeks rather than months for each novel (of which the...

December 1905: A young British officer, Hugh Trenchard,...

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December 1905

A young British officer, Hugh Trenchard , ordered the massacre of inhabitants of the village of Ahiara in southern Nigeria in retaliation for the killing of another officer.
Gott, Richard. “Shoot them to be sure”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 26-9.
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About 1820: The Society for the Suppression of Vice began...

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About 1820

The Society for the Suppression of Vice began to concentrate its efforts on the eradication of obscene printed materials.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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: Liberal Protestants defeated conservative...

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Summer 1847

Liberal Protestants defeated conservative Catholics in a civil war in Switzerland.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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Sheehan, James J. “The German States and the European Revolution”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 246-79.
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Margaret Minifie

MM was a minor eighteenth-century sentimental novelist. Her literary career was bound up with that of her sister, and the account reflected in standard reference books has rendered her nearly invisible by assimilating a number...

1508: The first printed books in Scotland appeared...

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1508

The first printed books in Scotland appeared from the Edinburgh press of Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar .
“First Scottish Books”. NLS: National Library of Scotland.

1982: Erin Pizzey published Prone to Violence,...

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1982

Erin Pizzey published Prone to Violence, which proposed the controversial theory that some women return to abusive partners because of an addiction to violence.
Pizzey's text is available online at http://www.bennett.com/ptv/index.shtml.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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By April 1774: A Father's Legacy to His Daughters, by Dr...

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By April 1774

A Father's Legacy to His Daughters, by Dr John Gregory , was posthumously published.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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Burney, Frances. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay). Editors Hemlow, Joyce and Althea Douglas, Clarendon Press, 1972–1984, 12 vols.
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O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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1922: William Penn, the well-known London Quaker...

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1922

William Penn, the well-known London Quaker who emigrated to America and founded the state of Pennsylvania, was the subject of a play by Mary Lucy Pendered .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

October 2017: As the #MeToo movement gained traction, conversations about diverse experiences of sexual abuse were sparked in broader areas of society.

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October 2017

As the #MeToo movement gained traction, conversations about diverse experiences of sexual abuse were sparked in broader areas of society. Women for Refugee Women tracked accounts of refugee women in Britain, whose legal status...